Damian McDonald
Damian McDonald ( born May 12 1972 in Wangaratta, † March 23, 2007 in Melbourne) was an Australian cyclist.
Sports career
His career began very successfully when he won the road race in the national Radmeisterschaften for itself in 1990. In the same year, he finished with the Australian team to third place in the team time trial of the discharged in Middlesbrough UCI Road World Junior Championships. In 1993 he finished the Rapport Tour in South Africa in fourth overall and drove the team time trial of the Road World Championships in Oslo with the Australian team to sixth place.
1994 McDonald could celebrate his greatest triumph when he won with Phil Anderson, Dennis Brett and Henk Vogels at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria Canada the gold medal in the same discipline. In the following year he won at the World Championships, although only the 42nd rank in the road race, secured with this placement Australia but the maximum number of starters in the road race in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. This he finished at No. 65 in the same year and won the overall title of the inaugural Tour de Langkawi. In 1997, McDonald retired from international sports events.
Personal
At the Australian Institute of Sport Damian McDonald met his future wife, Bree; the marriage took place in 2002. In October 2005, their son Lachlan was born. Bree McDonald was Manager of Netball team Melbourne Phoenix. Damian McDonald died on 23 March 2007 at Burnley tunnel in the southern Australian city of Melbourne with a pileup with subsequent tunnel fire. He was one of three fatalities in this accident.
Palmarčs
1990
- Australian Champion - Road Race
- Junior Road World Championships - Team Time Trial
1994
- Commonwealth Games - Team Time Trial
1996
- A stage Rhineland- Palatinate Tour
- A stage and General Classification Tour de Langkawi